There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
~By Trevor Phillips ~
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
~By Allen Tate ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
~By Michael Lewis ~
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~By Petrarch ~
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
~By James Madison ~
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
~By William Shakespeare ~
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
~By Helen Reddy ~
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
~By Ethan Coen ~
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~By Kim Campbell ~
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
~By Harry Essex ~
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
~By Lao Tzu ~
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~By George W. Bush ~
I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
~By John Deacon ~
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
~By Jodie Foster ~
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~By Henry Taylor ~
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
~By Edmund Burke ~
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
~By Philip Massinger ~
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
~By Van Morrison ~
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~By Pat Riley ~
Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.
~By Dom DeLuise ~
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
~By William Feather ~
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
~By Paul Auster ~
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
~By William Laud ~
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
~By Gene Tunney ~
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
~By David Friedman ~
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
~By Placido Domingo ~
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
~By Philip Levine ~
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
~By Frances Burney ~
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.
~By Sheldon Jackson ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
~By Willa Cather ~
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
~By Alan Hansen ~
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~By Adam Smith ~
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By William Whitehead ~
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
~By H. G. Wells ~
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
~By Georges Bizet ~
Big results require big ambitions.
~By Heraclitus ~
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
~By Bob Marley ~
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
~By Joseph P. Kennedy ~
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
~By Norman Mailer ~
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
~By Rosa Bonheur ~
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
~By William Eardley IV ~
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
~By John George Nicolay ~
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
~By Eva Gabor ~
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Time is the only critic without ambition.
~By John Steinbeck ~
For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
~By Lori Guinn ~
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
~By James W. Black ~
My one ambition is to play a hero.
~By Sessue Hayakawa ~
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